Superstar's Development Diary
Chapter 311 - 312: The Darkening Process

Chapter 311: Chapter 312: The Darkening Process

"’Burn, Youth’ will be recorded in four days, and you need to arrive at the show’s production team on the morning of the 17th. Fortunately, the recording location is not far. If you leave early in the morning, you can arrive on time,"

Brother Luo looked down at the schedule and continued, "The recording will last for three days, ending on the evening of the 19th. According to the schedule, you should be able to participate in two episodes, but that’s not certain. Everything depends on editing; it’s also possible that they cut your footage down to one episode."

At this point, Brother Luo couldn’t help feeling a little helpless, "Even though your show ’Small Bridge, Flowing Water, People’ is currently a hit and its popularity keeps soaring, you are still just a second-tier celebrity. For these top-tier reality variety shows, you have no say."

"I talked to the ’Burn, Youth’ production team and tried to get your participation locked down in the contract, but they refused. On one hand, you have no reality show experience, so they don’t know how you’ll perform. If it’s bad, they can cut a lot of your footage in post-production. On the other hand, even though you’re popular, you haven’t had a major breakout, so they’re not willing to take the risk,"

He Jinxia sat in the chair, flipping through the recording schedule and rough script sent over by ’Burn, Youth’, and said indifferently, "What will be, will be; what won’t be, won’t be. Anyway, I have three days of recording time; I’ll do my best to perform."

She had struggled and tried her best, but if she still couldn’t meet the production team’s expectations, then there was nothing she could do. She couldn’t expect them to risk backlash from the audience to keep her footage, could she?

Thinking this, an incident Sheng Yan mentioned previously about a reality show recording flashed through He Jinxia’s mind.

The director’s team ruthlessly cut every single one of his scenes, and they even hurriedly found another celebrity to replace him afterward. She couldn’t help but smile at the thought.

After all, no matter how poorly she did, she couldn’t do worse than Sheng Yan.

Brother Luo gave an "Mm," "You just need to try your best; don’t be too over the top. Just be natural and normal, and don’t feel like you must follow the character setting provided by the production team to a tee. If the character you portray is too perfect and a scandal breaks out later, it won’t look good,"

As he spoke, he flipped open another piece of paper and his brow furrowed when he saw the notes on it.

"You’ve mentioned wanting to participate in a music program called ’Music Strongest Sound’ before, where the recording only takes one day. However, this time the recording involves the quarterfinals, the battle of the top eight to the top four, so the production team wants you to put on an opening performance with the coach, and they also want you to do a transitional performance during the mid-show break,"

Brother Luo looked up at He Jinxia, his expression serious, "The recording date is the 26th. From the time you return from the previous show, you’ll have only six days to prepare two dances. Can you do it?"

He Jinxia lowered her eyes, a pensive look on her face.

Brother Luo couldn’t help saying, "Although this music program is quite hot recently, you’ve been rushing through two reality show appearances this month, and your body is already on the edge of exhaustion. If you become a special guest on ’Music Strongest Sound’, can your body handle it?"

"Jinxia, how about we skip this show?" Brother Luo revealed his true concern.

He Jinxia looked up at him, saw his worried face, and suddenly smiled, "Brother Luo, are you worried about my health, or are you worried about a conflict with JY girl group?"

Brother Luo coughed lightly, and said with a stern face, "When it comes down to it, I’m worried about you, both for your health and the potential conflict with them. After all, you were in the same group before; if a fight breaks out, it won’t look good for your image."

He Jinxia let out a soft chuckle, lowered her head to hide the cold glint in her eyes.

She spoke slowly, emphasizing every word, "Start a fight?"

"Rest assured, I won’t start a fight with them. I just need to watch them slowly fall from grace step by step. Instead of worrying about conflicts with them, you should be more concerned that they don’t deliberately crash into my line of fire."

This sentence laid bare in front of Luo You the stark conflict between her and the JY girl group.

Luo You’s eyelid twitched, sensing the skeletal sharpness beneath Jinxia’s calm tone.

It was bloody, irreconcilable, a conflict that absolutely couldn’t be appeased.

Luo You’s lips moved slightly, his face a mix of conflict, but in the end, he couldn’t help but ask,

"What conflict did you have with the JY girl group? I know you have been paying attention to JY in secret since you left the group. I thought you missed the group you used to be part of, but now it seems that’s not the case?"

He Jinxia closed her eyes slightly, took a deep breath, and suppressed the turbulent thoughts in her heart.

After a moment, she opened her eyes and looked at Luo You, "There are some things I haven’t even figured out myself, so I won’t tell you for now. What I can confirm is that the JY girl group once plotted to kill me."

Luo You’s face changed drastically in an instant, his heart skipped a beat, and he quickly looked around before realizing they were in a meeting room with no outsiders.

He asked anxiously, "Are you sure? Those are words that can land you in jail!"

He Jinxia spoke calmly, "Brother Luo, there are many ways in the world to kill someone without shedding blood. To crush someone’s spirit through public opinion, to drive them into anxiety, depression, and then on a path to self-destruction – do you think a court can judge these crimes?"

"Most crucially, the court can’t even determine if it was intentional manipulation or just normal guidance from the public, so I won’t sue them, nor will I suppress them directly, and I seldom contact the JY girl group."

A thought flashed through Luo You’s mind too quickly for him to catch.

Fearing that Jinxia would do something foolish and seeing that she was unwilling to disclose the specifics, he couldn’t help but suppress his urgency and advised her, "Whatever you plan to do, be careful not to bring disaster upon yourself with matters of life and death!"

He Jinxia looked at him strangely, "Life and death? Did I say I was going to take a life?"

Luo You relaxed a bit, wiped the sweat from his brow, "Seeing how seriously you were speaking, I thought you were planning on killing someone...whoops, not that! I meant, meant..."

His words caught in his throat, and his brain seemed to jam.

In his ear, He Jinxia’s voice came softly, "Death?"

"No, death would be letting them off too easily. The Eight Sufferings of Life: birth, aging, illness, death, reunion with enemies, separation of love, unfulfilled desires, and the Five Grasping Aggregates—any one can make a life worse than death."

Luo You felt a chill in his heart and shivered, thinking, Emma, why does this feel even more unsettling?

He stated uneasily, "Jinxia, please don’t do anything foolish, ah. If you want to deal with the JY girl group, you must tell me. Jinxia, you are still young and prone to impulsiveness. Some things...they actually have better solutions, you just haven’t thought of them yet."

Luo You racked his brain for reasons, "Having more people to consult means more solutions, right?"